Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readFor a society to be innovative, it is mandatory to come out of the fragmented Education system. A society needs to go from just studying via books to a more hands-on approach and look to solve real-world problems from scratch.While AI may not ever be able to truly replace human grading, it’s getting pretty close.Talking ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read"Ratan Tata told this reporter in 2010 that India will need to provide jobs to 300 million youth by 2030 and the challenge would be to find meaningful work."Education is lagging behind technology as we deal with the upcoming changes in the industry concerning secured jobs for people. As a result, employability is the big ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readAs of 2015, India is already the second largest market for eLearning after the United States. The sector is expected to reach $1.29 billion by 2018, growing at 17% CAGR.Scenario of the ELearning space in IndiaDespite having more than half the population under 25 years of age, India is expected to face a shortage of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readIn his book, The Child’s Changing Consciousness, Rudolf Steiner explained: “Essentially, there is no education other than self- education, whatever the level may be. Every education is self-education, and as teachers we can only provide the environment for children’s self-education. We have to provide the most favorable conditions where, through our agency, children can ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readRemember the mesmerizing advertisement on television of BYJU’s app that has a lovely ‘mysterious and naughty’ element to the world of Science and Maths? Reports confirm that this new EdTech startup has got the highest funding of $40 million from the China based Tencent Holdings Limited. “This latest round of funding will help BYJU’S accelerate ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readNon-regulated coaching, pre-schooling and certification courses are offering huge business opportunities to entrepreneurs in the current state of highly regulated education industry in India. More number of education institutes have been partnering with companies to keep up with the industry requirements. Simultaneously, the individualization concept of coaching is also gaining momentum among companies. Thus, briefing ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAccording to a latest New Work Order report, ‘teachers worldwide will be seen spending fewer hours lecturing and will instead use technology to facilitate "self-directed learning. Lesson facilitation and planning will take up 14 hours of a teachers' work week in 2030, compared to four hours in 2006. At the same time, only about one ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe education system in India provides all the theoretical knowledge to the students and rank them on the basis of their marks acquired in exams. Nonetheless, when it comes to practical knowledge, which is actually required, when on field, the toppers fail to apply the theory, which they were forced to mug up.Which is why ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe 5th BRICS meeting of education ministers from India, Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, unanimously agreed upon ‘the need of the hour is to strengthen cooperation in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)’. Therefore, these nations were prepared to bring to the table shared ideas and experiences in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIn an exclusive interview with the State Programme Officer in Directorate of School Education, Panchkula, Haryana, we were enlightened with the prevailing Education system and the efforts to strengthen the system through skill based training.How can states increase the Education base when it comes to a place when not many youth want to study ...